BitWiz
Veteran Member
I have about 2 dozen DEC RX02 8" Diskettes. These are the DEC branded floppies.
Almost all of them have 1 or more bad sectors (determined by using the /R option of RXCOPY after formatting with the /D option).
I have tried bulk erasing them, track erasing them in a greaseweazle, force formatting them in the greaseweazle and nothing seems to work.
Why would the DEC diskettes be so bad vs the Verbatim, Dysan, BASF and 3M diskettes that I have?
Also, does OS/8 do any kind of bad block mapping on RX02s like they do on the RK05?
Almost all of them have 1 or more bad sectors (determined by using the /R option of RXCOPY after formatting with the /D option).
I have tried bulk erasing them, track erasing them in a greaseweazle, force formatting them in the greaseweazle and nothing seems to work.
Why would the DEC diskettes be so bad vs the Verbatim, Dysan, BASF and 3M diskettes that I have?
Also, does OS/8 do any kind of bad block mapping on RX02s like they do on the RK05?